Cheers and thanks for the link to the faq. It just caught my attention :) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Strange thing with /
> "Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > is there any reason why // works? > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/bash/ > > " > E10) Why does `cd //' leave $PWD as `//'? > > POSIX.2, in its description of `cd', says that *three* or more leading > slashes may be replaced with a single slash when canonicalizing the > current working directory. > > This is, I presume, for historical compatibility. Certain versions of > Unix, and early network file systems, used paths of the form > //hostname/path to access `path' on server `hostname'. > " > > E11 always bugged me. Lots of good stuff in the faq. > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
